Alabama · NAICS 311 · Annual, 2025
Food Manufacturing in Alabama
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 311 in Alabama, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Food Manufacturing (NAICS 311) employed about 33,700 people in Alabama across roughly 521 establishments, with average annual pay of $51,950.
Employment in Food Manufacturing in Alabama declined 2.6% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is 1.4× as concentrated in Alabama as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.39). Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Alabama are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 33,700Employment, 2025
- 521Establishments
- $51,950Avg. annual pay
- 1.6%Share of Alabama jobs
- 1.39Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 34,600; 2005 34,100; 2006 34,800; 2007 34,000; 2008 34,400; 2009 33,000; 2010 32,300; 2011 31,600; 2012 31,200; 2013 31,400; 2014 30,600; 2015 30,900; 2016 31,700; 2017 32,500; 2018 32,900; 2019 33,200; 2020 32,200; 2021 30,700; 2022 31,600; 2023 32,000; 2024 33,100; 2025 33,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33,701 | 521 | $51,947 | 1.9% | pub. |
| 2024 | 33,082 | 508 | $49,707 | 3.3% | pub. |
| 2023 | 32,030 | 491 | $48,118 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2022 | 31,620 | 468 | $47,705 | 3.0% | pub. |
| 2021 | 30,692 | 426 | $43,730 | 4.6% | pub. |
| 2020 | 32,165 | 404 | $39,913 | 3.1% | pub. |
| 2019 | 33,211 | 401 | $37,359 | 1.1% | pub. |
| 2018 | 32,863 | 392 | $36,034 | 1.1% | pub. |
| 2017 | 32,520 | 381 | $34,443 | 2.5% | pub. |
| 2016 | 31,716 | 379 | $33,497 | 2.8% | pub. |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.
How this figure was built
Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.
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Food Manufacturing in Alabama, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for food manufacturing in Alabama. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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